Chapter 446: Ryukyu Restoration
Wang Hongyu has been prepared for a long time.
Knowing the above history, he tactfully explained these painful lessons to João, the Duke of Laganza, by reasoning, so that João, Duke of Bragança, gave up his illusions about the Western powers and devoted himself to cooperating with the Ming Dynasty.
João, the Duke of Bragança, brought a large negotiation team, and after Wang Hongyu told a story every time, he asked them to go back to analyze and discuss.
These aides had participated in the process of seeking help from the Holy See, England, França, and the Netherlands, and they had a deep understanding of the reactions of all sides, and the attitude of the other party was almost very similar to the fable told by Wang Hongyu, which made them admire Wang Hongyu's inference of the past and the future, and they even suspected that Wang Hongyu was an earthly envoy from their lord in the East.
In fact, what Wang Hongyu told them was what really happened in history, and what happened was basically consistent with the facts. In this way, I firmly believe that Wang Hongyu can indeed know the past and the future.
These old ministers loyal to the Portuguese royal family, for more than 40 years, have been running in a foreign land for help, and they have long been disappointed in the European powers, and they have seen the hope of recovering the country from the Ming Dynasty and Wang Hongyu.
Wang Hongyu clearly told Joao, Duke of Bragança: It is impossible for a country that has lost its territory to return to the hegemony of the maritime world, but with sincere cooperation with the Ming Dynasty, at least it can be restored without paying too much price.
The Ming also had to help Portugal regain its original colonies and maintain its original economic size. As for Portugal's enemy, the Netherlands, the Ming Dynasty will work with Ace Duck and Portugal to destroy their fleet, and will never let the Netherlands gain a foothold in Asia.
With the backing of the Ming Dynasty, Portugal's Brazilian colony would never be taken away by the Netherlands, and the Netherlands would never have a foothold in the Americas again.
Portugal has worked deeply with the Ming to continue to support them in their fight against the Netherlands and to maintain their independence in front of the Ace Duck.
Now the Ace Duck has relaxed the range of activities in Portugal.
The three parties master the trade and logistics of the East and the West, and the future will only get better and better.
After the departure of the Portuguese mission to Joao, the Ryukyus and Goryeo also sent royal families and important ministers to Yangzhou.
They begged the Ming to help them recover. The Ming Dynasty can only truly dominate Asia by helping them restore their country, everything depends on strength to speak, and diplomacy will not solve any problems.
At this time, the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain had taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, and even claimed to be called the return to China.
The Ming army on the southern front landed in the Ryukyus under the leadership of Yu Zhigao, the general soldier of Fujian, and thousands of elite Beijing battalions were sent to the Ryukyu country by the Fujian navy, officially receiving the return of the Ryukyu country on behalf of the Ming Dynasty.
A white-haired old man led the villagers to bow down to the Daming Dragon Banner, and they cried in blunt Guanzhong language: "We are the descendants of the dragon, we recognize our ancestors and return to our ancestors!" Men and women, young and old, burst into tears.
It turned out that most of the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom were descendants of the Qin people who stayed on the island when Xu Fu was looking for the elixir, and Xu Fu also sent people to visit their ancestors in the first few years, but then gradually lost contact with them for some reason.
Their ancestors lived on the island, many of them married and had children with the aborigines, and only a small amount of Guanzhong dialect has been handed down, and now their language has long since changed, but some Chinese characters are still used today, but the pronunciation is different, and the meaning has not changed.
All of a sudden, there were many Chinese people, and they only told the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom that the upper class of the Ryukyu Kingdom had often been in contact with the Chinese people, and they had collected many Chinese books, and many of them could speak a few words of Chinese.
Jingying is mainly northerners, and the residents of the Ryukyu Kingdom have ancestral Guanzhong language, and most of the Chinese people in contact with the management of the Ryukyu Kingdom are northerners, and they cannot understand the Min language.
Soon after, the commander-in-chief Luchin landed on Ryukyu Island with a large army, and Ruchin's mission was to occupy Tsushima Island in the Tsushima Strait and Jeju Island, which was occupied by Japanese troops in the southern part of the Goryeo Peninsula.
Later, large ships carrying grain and military supplies arrived, and some of the Shaanxi merchants said that the Qin language was very different from the current Shaanxi dialect, especially the official language, but the rural slang Tao did not change much.
So I found a few people to talk to the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Guanzhong slang,
Sure enough, there are many words that I can roughly understand.
The Ryukyu Kingdom was a feudal regime that once existed in the Ryukyu Islands, and originally referred to the three states of Shannan, Nakayama, and Shanbei established in the Ryukyu Islands, and in 1429, the three kingdoms were unified into the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The Ryukyu Kingdom is located between the Kakaho Island and the Japanese island of Kyushu, winding 1,000 kilometers and covering a total area of 3,600 square kilometers. Because of its special geographical location, it is known as a transit point for trade in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, and its trade is developed, and it is known as "Wanguo Jinliang".
In 1372, the Ryukyu kingdoms became vassal states of the Ming Dynasty of China.
In 1609, the Shimazu Satsuma clan led an army to invade the Ryukyus and forced the Ryukyus to pay tribute to the Wakoku. The Ryukyu Kingdom was formed into a state of "two genera", and gradually came under the de facto control of the Satsuma Domain, becoming a vassal of the Satsuma Domain.
In 1663, Ryukyu was officially canonized by the Qing Dynasty, and since then, Ryukyu has used the Qing Dynasty era name to pay tribute to the Qing Dynasty.
The history that followed is pathetic, and the Manchus lost countless lands, not to mention the protection of the Ryukyus.
Now that history has changed, the tragedy of history will not be repeated.
The main members of the Shimazu family came to the Ryukyu Kingdom to apologize.
After being introduced by Ming officials, they learned that the Ryukyu Kingdom they had always coveted was a compatriot who had arrived overseas at the same time as their ancestors.
The Shimazu family returned the property they had plundered from the Ryukyu Kingdom, compensated for the war losses, paid compensation to the families of the Ryukyuan people who died in the war, and bowed down to the dead to atone for their sins.
handed over all the important military points to the Ming army or the Ryukyu people, released all the Ryukyu royal personnel, cooperated with the Ming Dynasty to take over the Ryukyu Kingdom, and also used the Anzhai ship to transport a lot of grain to the people of the Ryukyu Kingdom, in fact, they themselves had no surplus food.
Yu Zhigao also distributed a lot of military rations to the people of the Ryukyus Kingdom and asked for more food supply from logistics. The islands of the Ryukyu Kingdom are not suitable for growing crops, and the islands are mountainous and lack of soil, and natural disasters are frequent, so half of the islanders' food depends on fishing.
The Shimazu family specially gave a batch of whaling ships to the Ryukyus Province, so that they could have meat to eat and refine whale oil, which could be exchanged for food and daily necessities with passing ships.
As a strategy for the treasure island, Nanjuyi also strengthened various exchanges between the treasure island and the Ryukyus.
The Ryukyus had many natural harbors, and the Ryukyus were a supply base for merchant ships as long as they established an armed force to protect trade.
The Ming army on the northern front of Ruchin began to blockade the islands of Tsushima and Jeju, and began an economic blockade of the Wa state, which in turn forced civil strife.
Then concentrate all forces to eliminate the Tokugawa shogunate in one fell swoop, dismembering this most restless neighbor.